State of DevOps Report: Reaping Results
The newly released 2016 State of DevOps Report concludes that DevOps is “no longer a mere fad or buzzword,” but rather an established set of practices and cultural patterns. Yet, a closer look at this year’s findings reveals progress is far more substantial than any matters of perception. The report was conducted and analyzed by […]
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the frantic pace of life makes such matchmaking more difficult than ever. That said, when the right set of complimentary traits exist […]
Continuous Delivery Dependent on Who, What, Where
Without the right people, positions and talents, it is difficult for a business to engender a DevOps culture. It is even more frustrating to facilitate a continuous delivery pipeline successfully producing quick bursts of innovative genius, without a full complement of qualified souls harmonizing on the same DevOps theme song as they toil away on […]
XebiaLabs Opens Sold-Out DevOps Leadership Summit
BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Jun 16, 2016) – XebiaLabs (http://www.xebialabs.com), a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the opening of its DevOps Leadership Summit at the iconic EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The DevOps Leadership Summit is a full day event bringing together some of the most advanced DevOps […]
How DevOps is Killing QA
If you work in software quality assurance (QA), it’s time to find a new job. The overall software development process has always consisted of the following core activities: Creating a requirements analysis; Producing a specification of the software artifact; Constructing the software; Investigating the quality of the product or service; Finding and fixing defects; then […]
Q&A: CircleCI’s Kevin Bell on Continuous Delivery
There’s been a lot of talk and momentum lately when it comes to continuous delivery. And it seems every enterprise has moved part, or all, of its development efforts to continuous delivery—or is at least talking about doing so. But there are many challenges such as security, dealing with legacy systems and internal politics associated […]
What is a DevOps ‘Best Practice’?
In IT, we love our frameworks. Whether agile, ITIL, lean, cobit, six sigma or others, our thirst for “best practice” guidance seems to be unquenchable. The concept of a “best practice” is an enigma. Who decides if a practice is actually the best? And best for whom? While an “adopt and adapt” mentality is advocated […]
Tales of DevOps Discovery Part 2: Definitions Matter
Definitions Matter: Step Two in a DevOps Transformation The first post in this series on DevOps Discovery discussed the importance of asking fundamental questions of stakeholders to facilitate alignment on priorities and establish a mission statement when beginning a DevOps transformation. Part 2, below, reviews definitions of common DevOps-related terms and provides examples of how […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
Continuous Delivery and Deployment: A Tale of Two Models
EnerNOC (Energy Network Operations Center) is an energy intelligence software provider with more than 1,300 employees in its Boston headquarters and international locations. The public firm helps global customers to efficiently consume energy. “Our mission is to change how the world uses energy, helping customers to improve profitability and visibility for better decision-making and sustainability […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Preserving Bottom-Up Innovation in DevOps
Balancing top-down control and oversight with bottom-up innovation and autonomy The driving force behind DevOps adoption in the enterprise is the idea that it will enable faster and more frequent delivery of better quality software. If all goes well, DevOps should result in higher customer satisfaction and lower costs, but the journey to get there […]
5 Prerequisites for a Successful DevOps Initiative
There are certain tools and attitudes that are essential to any successful DevOps transformation. The manner in which a DevOps transformation is performed will have huge implications on the level of agility the company is able to achieve. However, before that point is even reached, some vital foundations must be laid. It is from that […]
Balance: The Key to Successful DevOps
In the realm of IT buzzwords, DevOps is in a league of its own. The pervasiveness of the word is matched only by the variety of its definitions. Over time, much like the parable of The Blind Men and the Elephant, it has slowly taken shape out of the void, albeit in a backwards fashion. […]
Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
Jenkins 2.0 Advances Continuous Delivery with Native Pipeline Support and Usability Enhancements
New major release accelerates software delivery with focus on pipeline-as-code, software pipeline stage views and usability essentials for new and existing Jenkins users SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Jenkins project, comprised of the community of practitioners using open source Jenkins, today announced the availability of Jenkins 2.0. The first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly […]
7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
When we think of CD, we typically think of continuous deployment as a result of continuous delivery, which is a goal of DevOps. In this article, I coin the phrase, “Continuous Delirium,” to mean unending confusion or bewilderment in development environments. There are probably several examples that could fit the bill here, but for now […]
Legacy IT Challenges Continuous Delivery
Legacy information technology infrastructure has a strong effect on the potential success of DevOps. In environments where different teams have always used the same servers, change can be difficult due to inter-team coordination and limited server transparency and application inventories, says David Blank-Edelman, a 30-year systems administration/DevOps/SRE veteran and currently Technical Evangelist at Apcera. “Unraveling […]
Test Better, Test Faster, Test Smarter
How do you balance the need to “go fast” with the need to test everything and deliver high-quality software? With applications the driving force in today’s economy, the quality and release cadence of your software are critical to your business and your bottom line. You want to get software updated in the hands of your […]
Optimizing an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are often cited as pillars of successful DevOps. To establish and optimize the CI/CD development model and reap the benefits, companies need to build an effective pipeline to automate their build, integration and testing processes. This requires architecting CI/CD with five key ingredients which, when combined effectively, operate as […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup: Jenkins with Gerrit and BDD Automation
DevOpsQA NJ recently held its April Meetup on Automation with Jenkins and BDD, with Kishore Bhatia from CloudBees and Tom Bartolucci from Billtrust as speakers. The venue, food and refreshments were provided by Audible at a state-of-the-art, vast office space in historical city of Newark. After fun networking over pizza, wine and beer, we kicked off […]
Continuous Testing Live Network DevOps
My earlier blog, “From Laboratories to DevOps: Factories for Continuous Testing,” discussed the importance of and suggested practices for a fully automated, orchestrated software DevOps laboratory infrastructure, akin to a modern factory staffed by robots churning out products at a dizzy pace. The blog applies to development of software for networks, and the practices increasingly […]
Submit your proposal for DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco!
The theme for this year’s #DOES16 San Francisco conference is Leading Change. We want to hear stories from the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The submission deadline is midnight PDT, May 2, 2016. All submissions will be notified by June 17, 2016. Get details >>> […]